billet
意味一覧 (2件)
宿舎
解説 Definition
billet は、兵士などに命令や公的手配で一時的に割り当てられる宿舎・寝泊まり先を指す名詞です。民間の宿泊施設名ではなく、部隊が町や民家に分散して泊まる場面の「割当先」というニュアンスが中心です。
A billet is a place where soldiers or other service members are told to stay for a short time by official order. It usually means assigned lodging in a house, storehouse, or town building, not a hotel or other place chosen freely. The word often suggests that troops are spread out and each person is given a particular place to sleep.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
名詞 billet は「自分で選ぶ宿」ではなく、「上から指定される寝泊まり先」と整理すると区別しやすい語です。兵舎が足りないとき、村の家・倉庫・町の建物などが兵士の billet になります。動詞 billet「宿営させる」は、この名詞の宿舎を人に割り当てる動きとしてつながります。
Think of a billet as a place assigned to you, not a place you choose for yourself. If there are not enough barracks, soldiers may get a billet in a village house, a warehouse, or another local building. This also helps connect it to the verb billet, which means to assign someone to such lodging.
例文
Each soldier was given a billet in a nearby farmhouse for the night.
兵士たちはその夜、近くの農家の宿舎を割り当てられた。
The town hall was used as a temporary billet during the training exercise.
その訓練中、町役場が臨時の宿舎として使われた。
According to the old record, his billet was in a merchant's house at the edge of the village.
古い記録によれば、彼の宿舎は村外れの商人の家にあった。
宿営させる
(意味 2)解説 Definition
動詞 billet は、当局や指揮官が兵士・部隊を一時的な宿泊先へ配置して泊まらせることを表します。場所を用意するだけでなく、「誰をどこに宿営させる」と割り振る行為に焦点があります。
To billet someone means to provide them with a place to stay, especially soldiers in a private home or temporary housing. It is mostly used in military or historical contexts.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
billet を動詞で見たら、主語はたいてい軍・将校・当局など、宿泊先を決める側です。billet soldiers in houses なら「兵士を家々に割り当てて宿営させる」、be billeted in a village なら「村に宿営を命じられる」という受け身の場面です。accommodate より軍事・命令・一時配置の響きが強い点を押さえると覚えやすくなります。
Think of `billet` as a formal word for assigning someone a place to stay for a short time. It is often used in military contexts, so picture officers deciding where soldiers will sleep. That makes it easier to separate from the more general word `accommodate`.
例文
The army will billet soldiers in the nearby town.
軍は近くの町に兵士を宿営させるでしょう。
The barracks were full, so soldiers were billeted in nearby villages.
兵舎が満杯だったので、兵士たちは近くの村に宿営させられました。
Officers billeted their troops in empty warehouses.
将校たちは兵士たちを空の倉庫に宿営させました。
billet の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古フランス語 billet「小さな手紙・札」に由来し、さらに bille「木片」へさかのぼります。兵士の宿泊先を指定する札から「割り当て宿舎」の意味になりました。
Billet comes from Old French billet, meaning "small letter" or "ticket," from bille, meaning "piece of wood." A note or ticket was once used to show where a soldier should stay, and the word later came to mean the assigned lodging itself.
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